With our technology, we assume that things have to be somewhere in the star's system.
With SciFi though, the thing UAs are communicating with can very well be IN the star itself!
May well be, especially if there's anything extra dimensional about them (or if the star is not a star, but rather a massive construct?).
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This seems quite plausible from the scifi standpoint. It would also be easier to lock onto a star than a planet (we do it with our fsds) and has the added benefit of hiding their planet. I still kind of like it as a rather simple message for a first contact neutral ground.130 light years out, pointing at a distant sun is probably accurate enough to get the message through to one of its satellites.
Edit: the only thing that makes me think their home system (or systems) is/are elsewhere is that we'd all be talking about the planets there and even with cloaking tech, they'd be naive to lead us to their home system so easily.
Further edit: curious as to how these signals travel in such a way that they actually arrive in time to be useful. If they are remotely going "hard" with the scifi here, then the only thing I can think of is quantum entanglement, but for that it wouldn't matter where the device was pointed. To me that's another sign the message is actually for us.
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